Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-05
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. HORRORS OF THE RAIL. A Fast Running Express
 Takes Fire. NINETEEN BURNED TO DEATH. A Horrible Scene At The
 Wreck. 4 SMASH AT SPRINGFIELD. Fearful Disaster In A Coal
 Pit.


 Labor Burns to Death By Inches.
 THF1N, O., Jan. 4.-An east bound freight
 drawn by engine No. 726, while running on an up grade nine miles east of here and with in mile of the village of Republic, gave out and was unable to make the grade. The conductor ran forward with a signal to flag | fast train No. g. but it was too late. The | train was less than a quarter of mile back running at a sixty -three-mile rate and it crashed into the freight, wrecking both en- ! zines and the baggage, express, smoking and | one passenger car of the passenger train. Within an almost incredibly short space of time the wreck was in flames and the injured passengers were being burned. The passen- gers in the two sleepers and one coach es- capped, numbering about fifty. Nineteen passengers in the smoker are all killed. One l Irish emigrant alone escaped from the smoker, but afterwards died of his injuries. 1 He did not give his name. The engineer of | the passenger train jumped and escaped with I a dislocated knee. The fireman was pinned | between two beams, crushing his hips. He | lived three hours in that position. Nine charred and burned bodies were removed
  takers room. The sight was a horrible one. There was resemblance to human bodies | in the remains. At least ten more are supposed to have perished and been burned up. There is nothing about the | bodies which can help to identify them. | Among those who perished were Joseph Postlewaite, aged fifty seven, and his two
 sons, Spencer and Henry, aged eighteen and | eleven respectively. lie was from New IT. . | by his wife and three other small children. | They were going to Chillicothe. O., to make | that their home. CP. Bradley of 112 s street, f Washington, prominent Knight of Labor | on his way west to lecture, was held by the | feet in the car, his body protruding from ! him and he was burned to death by inches. | He gave his watch and papers into the safe keeping of others. A MT. Smith of Ben | wood, w. Va, was in the car next to the | smoker and was unhurt. He says the | shock was not great one. He was thrown l from his seat and thought the train l had left the track. Nobody was very seriously hurt in his coach beyond severe | cuts and bruises, etc. Physicians rendered l efficient service promptly. About & dozen l persons were wounded in addition to those of the killed not mentioned above and have not been identified. Prominent railway of. | ficials were present and investigating the
 
 | to blame, but it is learned that the engineer, I fireman and the crew of the freight were drunk and ne yleetful of their duty. The coroner of the county will make full inves- l tigation. The wounded were all hustled out
 of the county as quickly possible by the railway officials.
 The fast train consisted of baggage car, smoker, ladies' coach and two sleepers. Strange to say none of these left the track. l The passengers ia the ladies' coach, on | the sleepers, in the rear were uninjured, but the baggage and smoker could not be opened. The stoves in the smoker were up- set and the car took fire. It is impossible to tell-the full number of occupants who suffered death. This morning the charred, blackened and unrecognizable bodies of nine victims were uncovered from among the cin- ders and taken to Chamberlaine's undertak- ing establishment in Republic, together with the body of William Fredericks. Four of the bodies were identified, being man named Bradley from Washington, D. c. j; the other three were those of Joseph Postle- waite and his two sons. A man by the name of Forester from Chicago received charged to the conductor and eng1neer of the freight. They pulled out of Scipio, 8
 small station west of Republic, where they should have remained. They claimed they
 had thirty-6ve minutes to make the run of
 four miles which only requires eighteen min utes. Tyler, the engineer, is said to have
 been intoxicated and 8 brakeman said thatshe
 had four drinks with him the evening pre- vious. The work of clearing the track has
 begun, but will hardly be accomplished be- fore late tonight. Congressman Seney was reported on the train, but he left this morn ing via the Pennsylvania road.
 Frfghtful Smash at Spring6eld-
 The Modoc Train Leaves the Track
 and Takes Fire-One Killed and
 Nineteen Injured.
 SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Jan. 4.-Mittineague station was the scene of frightful railroad accident at an early hour this morning. The "Modoc" train from Albany approached the depot ali hour behind time and running at the rate of about thirty-Eve miles an hour. When within few rods of the depot five of the six cars in the train left the track from some cause not positively known, but thought to be broken journal. The train consisted of engine No. 9, an express car, baggage car, smoking car, one day coach and two sleeping oars. The engine and the express car kept on the main track, but the baggage car was thrown against the engine of the local west bound freight train, which had just pulled in and was standing on the west bound main track. The freight engine was thrown on it's side and completely wrecked. The baggage car, smoking car and day coach immediately took fire, and were all consumed, except the bodies and the trucks. As far as can be learned only one man was killed. His body now lies at Washburne's morgue and is so badly burned that identification is impossi- bic. It was taken from the ruins of the smoking car directly behind the baggage car. It is thought from 6 cap found near marked sfU. S." to be that of 8 soldier. Twenty per- sons were injured as follows:
 Jane M. Jenks. Troy, NY. body bruised. Her husbands corpse, which she was taking to Ludlow.
 Mrs r M Chandler of Troy, daughter of Mrs Jeas sprans e and ts an % ankle & oIs of jn laos
 and fingers, lost some clothing.
 James B. Childs, Of Syracuse, commercial travel CT. bruised and cut badly about the knee,
 Francis E. Thompson, of Campbell, Mass just discharged on account of phy sical disability from the United States military service hurt about the
 f and Emeline Dwyer, of Honolulu, body bruises
 Mary ssverino of Honolulu, eighteen years old,
 daughter 9 sas p9ers sh 9n n the so
 the face, badly shaken up and bruised, badly but Mrs. E A. Whltford, of Providence shaken up and seriously bruised.
 Fiske Manufacturing company, terribly cut on the John SanjerS, Of West SPrlngheid, foreman Of the freight train. cut on forehead and cheeks, shoulder dislocated
 Conductor George A. Chapin, of this city, bruised on the nose and right temple.
 T. G. Rawson, of Mt. Hope, Sedgwick county
 Kansas, on his way to Worcester, cut on the right leg.
 cut, pitched through win jew, cut On the fingers and leg badly bruised.
 F. O'Reiliy. of Ashf1eld, P. e. bound for Framiugham. clothes torn and generally bruised; Dexter Drury, of Birmingham, leg bruised and fingers cut.
 Charles Van wyck of Lockport, N. F., teeth knocked out and scalp torn
 Charles s. Packard printer, twen weight years
 old serious internal injuries apd bad scalp wound Joseph Chereux, West Sprin gfield. engineer on